MLGW purchased the home of AFSCME Memphis Local 1733 member Joe C. Warren in
June.
In honor of Mr. Warren, who coined
the term " I am a man”, and other sanitation workers, MLGW plans to
preserve and maintain Warren’s home at 968 Meagher.
Warren held organizational meetings at his
home on the corner of Meagher & Dunkley. Dunkley has been given the
honorary street name of Joe C. Warren Boulevard and soon Warren’s house will
get a historical marker.
MLGW is extremely pleased that Warren’s home
will serve as a gateway to its expanding North Service Center. Asbestos has
been removed from the home and new siding has been installed.
Warren marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in
the 1968 Sanitation Strike in Memphis. Warren, along with eight other original
sanitation workers, was honored at the White House by President Barack Obama
April 2011. They were also inducted into the Department of Labor's Labor Hall of
Fame.
Warren, a WWII veteran, was fired along with 32 others by
the City of Memphis Sanitation Department in 1965 for alleged employment
violations.
Warren passed away at the age of 91 in July 2012.
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